Question

Our basketball team won 60 percent of their games. If they lost 8 games, how many games did they play altogether?

Answer 1

If they won 60% of games. That means they lost (or drew) 40%.

They lost 8 games. So those 8 games accounts for 40% of all the matches they played.

8 games = 40%
(divide by 8)

1 game = 5%

To get 100% ie the total number of games played you do 5% x 20

So you also do 1 x 20 to get 20 games played in total.

Answer 2

they played 20 games together

Explanation:

use percentages

Let x be the number of total games.

If 60% is won games then 40% is lost games.

(8/x)*100 = 40

8/x = 4/10

80 = 4x

X = 80/4

Therefore the number of games is 20